TRACY KRUMM
BORN Kenosha, WI, USA 1963
EDUCATION
1995 MFA- Visual Art, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
1987 BFA, with High Distinction- Textiles, California College of Arts and Crafts,
Oakland, CA; Dean’s List, Marion Memorial Scholarship
1981-1983 The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA; Foundation Scholarship
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Lux Center for Contemporary Art Lincoln, NE
2009 Andrea Schwartz Gallery San Francisco, CA
2007 Over, Under, Around and Through, Russell Hill Rogers Gallery,
Gallery II, SW School of Art and Craft San Antonio, TX
Selected Work (in honor of the CCA Centennial Celebration)
Andrea Schwartz Gallery San Francisco, CA
2006 Lemmons Contemporary New York, NY
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Boulder, CO
2005 Cervini Haas/Gallery Materia Scottsdale, AZ
2004 Andrea Schwartz Gallery San Francisco, CA
(Re)Conciliations, Lemmons Contemporary New York, NY
Organic Matter, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UC Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA
2003 Familiar/Departure, Linda Durham Contemporary Art Galisteo, NM
New Work, Eckenroth Gallery Vail, CO
2002 Material and Process: Negotiation and Accommodation
University Art Museum Missoula, MT
2001 Instinct and Memory, Linda Durham Contemporary Art (folio) Galisteo, NM
2000 Hibberd-McGrath Gallery Breckenridge, CO
1999 From an Object Maker’s Lair, Linda Durham Contemporary Art Galisteo, NM
1997 Hibberd-McGrath Gallery Breckenridge, CO
1995 Nets and Lures, New Sculptures, T. W. Wood Gallery Montpelier, VT
1994 On an Adventure, Hibberd-McGrath Gallery Breckenridge, CO
1992 Rambling Scrapbook, Hibberd-McGrath Gallery Breckenridge, CO
1990 Jubilation! Newton Centre, MA
Hibberd-McGrath Gallery Breckenridge, CO
Gallery 500 Elkins Park, PA
1989 Corvallis Art Center Corvallis, OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 SOFA New York, represented by Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art Santa Fe, NM
2009 Connected: The Stitch, Cervini Haas Gallery Scottsdale, AZ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, cont.-
2009, cont.- Women’s Ware/Women’s Wear, EMU Art Gallery Ypsilanti, MI
Hospitality House 24th Annual Art Auction
Andrea Schwartz Gallery San Francisco, CA
Variations: Holiday Group Show, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art Santa Fe, NM
2008-2010 Reimagining the Distaff Tool Kit (travels April ’08 – November ‘10)
Bennington Museum (catalog) Bennington, VT
Mead Museum, Amherst College Amherst, MA
Gardner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City, OK
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University Roanoke, VA
Morris Museum Morristown, NJ
Mandeville Gallery, Union College Schenectady, NY
Dennison University Museum Granville, OH
Ellen Noel Art Museum Odessa, TX
Beard Gallery, Wheaton College Norton, MA
2008 SOFA- Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Navy Pier Chicago, IL
Fall Group Show, Lemmons Contemporary New York, NY New, Three, H&R Block Artspace Kansas City, MO
Gold, Linda Durham Contemporary Art Santa Fe, NM
Summer Faculty Show, Sandra J. Blain Gallery, Arrowmont Gatlinburg, TN
Gallery Artists’ Summer Exhibition, Lemmons Contemporary New York, NY
Interlaced, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft Portland, OR
The Matter at Hand, Memphis College of Art Memphis, TN
2007 Laced with History, John Michael Kohler Art Center Sheboygan, WI
Cross Over, University of Akron Art Gallery Akron, OH
2006 Material Difference, Chicago Cultural Center (catalog) Chicago, IL
Resident Artists Exhibition, Hoffman Gallery,
Oregon College of Art and Craft Portland, OR
Remnants: A Group Show, Lemmons Contemporary New York, NY
Summer Faculty Exhibition, Appalachian Center for Crafts Smithville, TN
2005 Haystack Faculty Exhibition, Blue Heron Gallery Deer Isle, ME
Penland Faculty Exhibition, Penland Gallery Penland, NC
Five, Emmanuel Gallery, Metro State University Denver, CO
Come Together, Studio Aiello Denver, CO
2004 11th International Triennial, Central Museum of Textiles Lodz, Poland
3-D Art/Techne - New Mexico Artist Series, Linda Durham Santa Fe, NM
Challenging Traditions, Dahl Art Center Rapid City, SD
Fiberish, Studio Aiello Denver, CO
2003-2004 Pins and Needles, John Michael Kohler Art Center Sheboygan, WI
The Art of Craft: Ceramic, Wood, Fiber and Metal Susquehanna Art Museum’s Van-GO Traveling Exhibition State of PA
Rhythm of Crochet (catalog)
McHenry County College Crystal Lake, IL
Gallery 510 Decatur, IL Northwest Cultural Council Gallery Rolling Hills, IL
Moonstone Gallery Lake Geneva, WI
Fiber Art Center Amherst, MA
1999-2004 International Art Expo
Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Navy Pier (catalog ‘99) Chicago, IL
Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Fort Mason (catalog ‘00) San Francisco, CA
2003 Larger than Life, Susquehanna Art Museum Harrisburg, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, cont.-
2003, cont.- Women on the Edge, Duane Reed Gallery St. Louis, MO
Transcending Process, Brookfield Craft Center Brookfield, CT
CCAC Alumni Exhibition, Andrea Schwartz Gallery San Francisco, CA
LA International Art Fair, Linda Durham Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
2002-2003 Mind over Matter: Reworking Women’s Work, Museum of Fine Art Santa Fe, NM
2001-2003 Steel Grrls Art League of Houston (catalog) Houston, TX
Johnstone Gallery Albuquerque, NM
2002 Textile Techniques in Metal, Mobilia Gallery Cambridge, MA
Art Cologne, Linda Durham Contemporary Art Cologne, Germany
Unconventional Threads, Rockford College Art Gallery Rockford, IL
ARCO International Art Exposition, Linda Durham Contemporary Art Madrid, Spain
2001-2002 Organizing the World: Sculptural Interventions, Museum of Fine Art Santa Fe, NM
6 in the City, Linda Durham Contemporary Art New York, NY
1998-2002 SOFA
Duane Reed Gallery, Navy Pier (2002)
Hibberd McGrath Gallery, Navy Pier (1998-2001, catalog ‘00) Chicago, IL
LyonswierPacker Gallery, New York (2000) New York, NY
2001 SITE Unseen II, James Kelly Contemporary Santa Fe, NM
2000-2001 Textile Art: Recent Acquisitions, Denver Art Museum Denver, CO
Revealing Conditions: A Dialogue of 3 Generations
ArtCenter/South Florida (3-person show, catalog) Miami, FL
1999-2001 Miami Art Expo, Linda Durham Contemporary Art Miami, FL
1999, 2001 The Window Project, La Casa Sena (1999), Alpine Sports (2001) Santa Fe, NM
2000 Chain Reaction (catalog)
Textile Arts Center Chicago, IL
McHenry County College Crystal Lake, IL
Re/Formations (catalog)
Portsmouth Museum Portsmouth, VA
Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center Glen Allen, VA
Appalachian Center for Crafts Smithville, TN
Longwood Center for the Visual Arts Farmville, VA
1999 Grand Opening- Gallery Artists, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art Kansas City, MO
SITE Unseen, James Kelly Contemporary Santa Fe, NM
1998 Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos: The City Series (catalog)
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Cedar Rapids, IA
Suspensions, Troyer, Fitzpatrick and Lassman Gallery Washington, DC
1997 Fiberart International ‘97, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (catalog) Pittsburgh, PA
Allegorrery, Plan B/Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, NM
Houseguests, Linda Durham Contemporary Art Galisteo, NM
1996 4th International Betonac Prize (catalog)
Provincial Museum of Religious Art Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Textilmuseum SanktGallen, Switzerland
Museum of Decorative Arts Prague, Czechia
Odder Museum Odder, Denmark
The Sculpture Project: Sculpture Invitational
Fine Arts Gallery, College of Santa Fe Santa Fe, NM
Airships and Submersibles, Off-Site Santa Fe, NM
Family Values: Rhetoric vs. Reality, T. W. Wood Gallery (catalog) Montpelier, VT
1996 Sculpture Exhibition, Los Alamos County Municipal Building Los Alamos, NM
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, cont.-
1996, cont.- Close to the Border, New Mexico State University Art Gallery Las Cruces, NM
Alert: New Works, Site 21/21 Albuquerque, NM
Northern New Mexico Women, Oñate Center Alcalde, NM
The Water Show: Waterbook, A Collaboration, Rio Arriba Gallery Abiquiu, NM
1995 A Textured Language: Fiberarts 20th Anniversary (catalog)
Blue Spiral I Asheville, NC
Sculpture 1995, The Sculpture Group Gallery Blackhawk, CA
1994 Wall Works in Fiber, Banaker Gallery San Francisco, CA
1992-1993 Artists Projects: Pyramid Atlantic
Greater Reston Arts Center Reston, VA
Harmony Hall Regional Center Fort Washington, MD
1992 International Craft Expo 1992, Tokyo Trade Center/Harumi Tokyo, Japan
1991 Pyramid Atlantic: A Decade of Paper, 1981-1991
Sylvia Cordish Fine Art Baltimore, MD
Montpelier Cultural Center Laurel, MD
Fiber National, Adams Art Gallery (catalog) Dunkirk, NY
Annual Summer Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Moyer Gallery Green Bay, WI
Perspectives Previews: Four-Person Show, Perspectives Gallery Minneapolis, MN
Focus on Fiber: Small Works, Hibberd-McGrath Gallery Breckenridge, CO
1990 American Craft Council Exhibitions, retail and wholesale market
Baltimore Convention Center Baltimore, MD Minneapolis Convention Center Minneapolis, MN
Amulets and Talismans: Contemporary Icons, Craftsman’s Gallery Scarsdale, NY
1989 The Magic Show, Gayle Willson Gallery Southampton, NY
Over, Under, Around, and Through
California Museum of Art, Luther Burbank Center Santa Rosa, CA
Discovery: Emergence ’89, California Craft Museum San Francisco, CA
1988-1990 Young Americans 1988 (catalog)
American Craft Museum New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts Springfield, MA
Oklahoma Art Center Oklahoma City, OK
Worcester Center for the Arts Worcester, MA
Hunter Museum Chattanooga, TN
Jacksonville Art Museum Jacksonville, FL
1988 Christmas Ornaments from the Permanent Collection
American Craft Museum New York, NY
Explorations in Paper and Clay, Banaker Gallery Walnut Creek, CA
Introductions ‘88, Banaker Gallery Walnut Creek, CA
1987 Nineteenth Annual Textile Exhibit, Olive Hyde Art Gallery Fremont, CA
Flying Colors, California Crafts Museum San Francisco, CA
TEACHING
2008-present Assistant Professor, Fiber Department, Kansas City Art Institute,
Kansas City, MO; Courses taught: Advanced Fiber Studio, Professional
Practices; Materials and Methods; Senior Studio; Craft and Social Practice
°Developed and prepared new courses: Materials and Methods; Craft and Social Practice
2009 Freeform Crochet, Workshop Instructor, Surface Design Association Conference, Kansas City, MO
TEACHING, cont.-
2008-2009 Graduate Faculty Committee Member, Art + Design, College of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
°Adjunct member of two graduate student MAD committees through spring 2009
2006-2008 Visiting Assistant Professor and Associate Member- Graduate Faculty,
Art + Design, College of Design, North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC; Courses taught: Intro to Fiber Studio; Graduate/Advanced Fiber Studio; Sculpture Studio: “Elemental”; Intro to Surface Design; Fibers, Materials and Process; 3-D Fiber; Planar Textile Structures
°Developed and prepared new courses: Visual Basic Studies- 3D Fiber; Planar Textile Structures; Sculpture Studio: “Elemental”
°Served as a faculty advisor for independent studies and internships for both graduate and undergraduate students
2008 Sculptural Crochet, Workshop Instructor, Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN
Visiting Artist, MFA Program, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
3-D Textile Techniques and Collaboration, Workshop Instructor, Fiber Program, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
2007 Sculptural Crochet, Visiting Adjunct Faculty, Southwest School of Art and Craft,
San Antonio, TX
Textile Structures and Paper, Workshop Instructor, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD
The Found Object and Various Experiments, Workshop Instructor, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO
2006 Fiber Techniques for Sculpture, Summer Program Faculty, Appalachian Center
for Crafts, Smithville, TN
Fiber Techniques for Sculpture, Summer Program Faculty, Oregon College of Art
and Craft, Portland, OR
Guest Critique, Advanced and Graduate Fiber Studio, North Carolina State University, College of Design, Art + Design, Raleigh, NC
2003-2006 Lecturer, Fiber Department and Special Programs Faculty, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; Courses taught: Big Fiber: Corpus Architectus, Fiber Construction Techniques for Sculpture; Professional Practices; Sophomore Studio: Beginning Weaving; Junior Fiber Studio: Fiber Forms; Junior Fiber Studio: Materials, Process and Concept, Senior Fiber Studio
°Served as faculty advisor for directed studies in weaving, 3-D textiles and papermaking with individual students
°Developed new courses in Fiber: Introduction to Fiber Construction,
Advanced Fiber Construction, and Big Fiber: Installation and Sculpture
2005 Beginning Crochet, Workshop Instructor, Fiber Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Knotting and Interlacing, Workshop Instructor, MFA Fiber Program, Cranbrook
Academy of Art, Pontiac, MI
Visiting Artist and Workshop Instructor- Knotting and Interlacing, MFA Fiber Program, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Pontiac, MI
Fiber Techniques for Sculpture, Workshop Instructor, Haystack, Deer Isle, ME
Big Fiber: Sculpture and Installation, Workshop Instructor, Penland School, Penland, NC
Sculptural Crochet, Workshop Instructor, Surface Design Association Conference, Kansas City, MO
Visiting Artist, MFA Program, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
TEACHING, cont.-
2005, cont.- Sculptural Crochet and Hand Construction Techniques, Workshop Instructor- Fiber Program, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
2004 Visiting Artist, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
2003 The Found Object and Various Experiments, Workshop Instructor,
Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2002 Visiting Artist, MFA Program, University of Montana at Missoula, Missoula, MT
1995 Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Critique, MFA Program, Vermont College,
Montpelier, VT
1994-1995 Recycling for Handmade Paper, Workshop Instructor, SCRAP and the San Francisco Recycling Center, San Francisco, CA
1994 Visiting Artist, Advanced Hand Construction class with Carol Beadle, Textile
Department, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1991-1993 Colored Pulp Paper Images for Printmaking, Workshop Assistant for Peggy Prentice
Recycling for Handmade Paper, Workshop Instructor
Paper in Relief: Focus on Surface, Workshop Instructor
Large Scale Papermaking, Workshop Instructor with Helen Frederick
Papermaking Tutorials and Collaborations; all at Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD
1989 Dimensional Paper, Workshop Assistant for Ted Ramsey
Paper Surfaces, Workshop Assistant for Gisela Moyer; both at the Penland
School, Penland, NC
1986-1987 Enrichment Art Teacher, Second Grade, Park Day School, Oakland, CA
LECTURES and CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2009 Recent Work, Surface Design Association Conference, Kansas City, MO
2008 Community Based Public Art, for 3/30/08 “Junior Professional Practices” with
Julie Metzler, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Form and Formlessness, for the School of the Foundation Year, Kansas City Art
Institute, Kansas City, MO
Big Fiber I and II- Textiles and Public Practice, for “The Artist in Society” with
S. Reed Anderson, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
The Noon Thing, Gallery Talk with “New: Three” Artists, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
Recent Work and Young Artists in Fiber, Fiber Department, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Textile Techniques in Contemporary Sculpture, The Furini Memorial Sculpture Symposium, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
New Materials, Recent Work, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
2007 Recent Work and Young Artists in Fiber, Indiana University at Bloomington, School of Fine Art, Bloomington, IN
Interlacings: Material and Image, Southwest School of Art and Craft,
San Antonio, TX
Big Fiber, Public Textiles and Recent Work, Museum of International Folk Art,
Santa, Fe, NM
Recent Work, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO